Monthly Archives: April 2008

How I felt last weekend

This describes it pretty well. I’m a fan of web comics, so this ones now on my feed radar. Thanks Keacher

April 27, 2008 – 00:36 | By lantrix | Posted in comedy | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

OpenBSD, postgresql and semaphore failures during initdb

Today I upgraded my postgresql database instance on OpenBSD. Did a pg_dumpall, removed the old packages and then added the new ones (latest version 8.1.9 for OpenBSD 4.0 – yes I’m behind). During the initialisation of the new DB, I got the following error: creating directory /var/postgresql/data/pg_tblspc … ok selecting default max_connections … 10 selecting …

April 22, 2008 – 01:54 | By lantrix | Posted in openbsd, unix | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Coral Content Distributed network

Have you ever had your website hit on a topic that people find conflicting? When the site gets viewed by the masses, you need to be prepared. If you have access to modify your web server .htaccess file then go and have a read of the Coral CDN Overview For those interested in the techie …

April 20, 2008 – 22:06 | By lantrix | Posted in Musings, tech, unix, webdev | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Wikipedia Article creates Circular references

A recent post on SlashDot quotes an IT professor saying: People are unwittingly trusting the information they find on Wikipedia, yet experience has shown it can be wrong, incomplete, biased, or misleading After reading this, I thought it was time to write about a something I found that backs this up. An anonymous user added …

April 19, 2008 – 23:57 | By lantrix | Posted in internet, news, politics, tech | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)